Independent Moldova
(1991 - 2011)

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
(1945 - 1991)

The Second World War
(1939 - 1945)

Bessarabia and Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the Period between the Two World Wars
(1918 - 1939)

Revival of National Movement
(1905 - 1918)

Time of Reforms and their Consequences
(1864 - 1905)

Abolition of Autonomy. Bessarabia – a New Tsarist Colony
(1828 - 1864)

Period of Relative Autonomy of Bessarabia within the Russian Empire
(1812 - 1828)

Between Medieval and Modern Times. Phanariot Regime
(18th century – 1812)

Golden Age of the Romanian Culture
(17th – 18th century)

Struggle for Maintaining the National Independence of the Medieval Moldavian State
(15th – 17th centuries)

Period of Formation and Final Establishment of the Independent Medieval State of Moldova
(14th – 15th centuries)

Era of the Great Nomad Migrations and the Emergence of the First Pre-State Formations in the Carpathian-Danubian Region
(9th – 13th centuries)

Early Middle Ages. Forming of Romanic Communities. Emergence of First Pre-state Formations
(6th – 9th centuries A.D.)

Iron Age and Antiquity
(last centuries of 2nd millennium B.C. – first centuries of 1st millennium A.D.)

Bronze Age
(early 3rd millennium B.C. – late 2nd millennium B.C.)

Aeneolithic Age
(late 5th millennium B.C. - early 3rd millennium B.C.)

Neolithic Age
(2nd half of 6th millennium B.C. – early 3rd millennium B.C.)

Palaeolithic Age
(500,000 years ago – 7,000 years ago)